Baseball Player's Son, 14, Dies of 'Sudden Illness'

Is the death of children becoming normalized?

Here is the tragic news, as reported in the New York Post:

Miller Gardner, the youngest son of Brett Gardner, died on Friday at the age of 14, the family announced through the Yankees on Sunday.

In a statement from the former Yankees outfielder and his wife Jessica, the Gardners said Miller fell ill “along with several other family members while on vacation.”

“We have so many questions and so few answers at this point, but we do know that he passed away peacefully in his sleep on the morning of Friday, March 21st,” the Gardners said in the statement.

My wife informed me of this on Sunday, though as a lifelong Yankees fan, I would have found out as soon as I checked in on the score of the spring training game. (Yes, I check in on the score of ‘meaningless’ games—I am that much of a fan. I know a lot of you do not follow “sportsball,” but I have been a fan since 1976. It’s a hard habit to break, even if I wanted to…which I don’t.)

Losing a child—I can only dimly imagine what that must be like, and the thought is terrifying. My heart goes out to the Gardner family. And though they will never be aware of any condolences I might offer, I offer them nonetheless.

I really hate to use this tragedy as the basis for any political discussion, and I certainly had no plans to do so. (And I am waiting a day before publishing this, just to avoid doing so instantly.) But I saw a comment in the comment thread of the NY Post article that impelled me to speak up.

(As of this writing), it is the first comment at the top of the thread, and it hits like a ton of bricks:

we lost our son in Nov, whereas I thought we were part of a small minority of parents who lost children, I found it's more common than I thought. there is no pain greater than the loss of a child.

Needless to say, the commenter could mean a lot of things. It could be that after he publicly discussed the death of his child, a lot of others who had also lost children replied, making it feel like it was more widespread a phenomenon than he expected. But here’s the problem…

It IS a more widespread phenomenon than it used to be.

• “Sudden Deaths” Continue to Explode at the Beginning of 2023

• Suddens Deaths Explode Among Vaxxed Children and Babies

• CDC Director Brags Millions of Children Died Suddenly From COVID Jabs

• Heart Disease in Children Explodes Since the Vaccine.

• Youth Deaths Continue to Skyrocket and No One Seems Concerned

And the media are entirely normalizing it:

• Doctors’ reminder: Now, nobody is too young for a heart attack

• The little-known heart attack striking ‘fit and healthy’ women as young as 22

• “Kids have strokes too” (Ignore the pathetic ‘fact’ checks.)

• Watch: Russell Brand Slams Media for Normalizing Heart Attacks in Young…

This intrepid author has compiled at least 35 more examples.

And they know it, too (emphasis mine):

The CDC’s own internal report shows over 117,000 excess deaths among American children since the vaccine. CHILDREN. That’s more excess dead children in two years than all the U.S. soldiers killed in the Vietnam War in a decade.

I am not saying that Gardner’s son took the vaccine or died from it. I do not know anything about that. I am simply noting that the death of children is not normal, and it is morally criminal to normalize it in any way. Yes, it happens, But it is not supposed to happen at the rate that it has been happening since 2021.

But then what did kill this boy?

According to the Gardners’ statement, their son fell ill “along with several other family members.” What was this “unexpected illness”—this “sudden illness” that struck a whole family, and killed one of them? That in and of itself is extremely odd, and does not seem normal in any way.

Of course, what is normal these days?

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